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Playboy Jailed As Drug Ring Boss Detectives Report | $500,000 Dope Find | NEW YORK, Dec, 8 (UP)—A boy was jailed today charged with

being the: ringleader of a multi-| million dollar narcotics ring.

Angelo Ortiz, 27, was arrested|*"

last night by detectives who said they had trailed him for seven

weeks as he nightclubbed in|

bright spots along the Great | §

White Way." | They said he offered them a

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they finally closed in. Detectives sald Ortiz led them to more than half a million dollars worth of marijuana and cocaine which he had hidden in| his apartment and in a Bronx| storeroom., . 8 Also arrested with Ortiz were |B his wife, Rose, 21; Joseph Rodri-| guez, 40, and Ida Zayas, 26. Ortiz was charged with possession and sale of narcotics and the other three were charged with possession of drugs. | Started in March Police said Ortiz began his op-| erations last March after a series of raids broke up a 3.5 million drug combine which also had operated along Broadway. Three men were arrested at that time.| The arresting detectives, John! Cottone and George Zegers, said they found more than 1000 mariJuana cigarets on Ortiz’ person. They took him to his West Side apartment where they said they found some $900 in bills tucked in shoes in his clothes closet. The detectives said Ortiz obtained the drugs from South America and Mexico, flying them into the United States. | Ortiz used a custom-built auto-| mobile in his man-about-town, role, detectives said, and passed] out large tips to waiters and hat-| check girls In the nightclubs he visited.

Purse-Grab Suspects | |

Nabbed on Victim's Tip Two suspects were arrested early today because an alert young woman got an automobile license number after being] knocked down by a purse] snatcher. Miss Betty Jo Phelps, 20, of 2942 Hillside Ave., told police her purse was snatched as she| alighted from a bus near her home late last night. She sald | one of four youths in an automo-| bile hit her with a club and grabbed her purse containing $4.| After being treated for four) lacerations in the scalp, Miss Phelps identified an automobile which she said was involved in the robbery. Two brothers, joint owners of the car, were slated for city vagrancy but both steadfastly denied participation in the robbery.

Mickey Cohen Quits Haberdasher Business

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 9 (UP) — Bargain-hunting crowds flocked today to Michael's exclusive haberdashery for Hollywood's liquidation sale of the year. On hand yesterday to watch more than 200 persons line up before the unprofitable Sunset Strip enterprise was retiring proprietor Mickey Cohen, better known as an alleged gambler and gangster. He was forced to sell his $75,000 stock to pay the forfeited bail bonds of two vanished henchmen, Frank Niccoli and Dave Ogul. Eying customers and a huge sign reading: ‘Mickey Cohen

—uits,” the financially-embarrassed|

Quits,” the financially embarrassed underworld czar wistfully commented: “It ain’t never been so crowded.”

Irate Husband Paints Wife's Face, She Says

MILWAUKEE, Dec. 9 (UP)—A Milwaukee wife says she’s willing to forgive and forget if her husband promises not to use her face as a painter's palette. f With traces of white paint in| her hair, Mrs, Dorothy Grace, 22, | came before Judge Harvey Neelen here and charged that her husband James slapped paint in her face. She said the incident occurred when she asked him to stop paint-| ing woodwork. He had been| drinking, she explained, and she feared he’d splattér the walls, | Mrs. - Grace said ‘ she planned, divorce action. But she agreed] to give her husband another] chance, and the judge placed] Grace on probation.

Oak Ridge Strikers |

Return to Work OAK RIDGE, Tenn. Dec. 9| (UP)—All of the estimated 2750 | union construction workers on atomic projects who staged a wildcat strike here early this week were expected back on their jobs today. The walkout, which virtually halted all new building at the atomic city for two days, actually ended yesterday as 2333 of the strikers were reported back at work by 3 p. m. (Indianapolis {Time). The rest were expected to yeturn today. Members of 10 AFL craft unions left their jobs late Monday and early Tuesday. They apparently’ were protesting the use of

a pipeline project here.

Bandits Strong-Arm Pair, Flee With $175

Two New York Central Rallroad employees were ~_strongarmed by three thugs In an'alley off Pearl. 8t. early today and one was robbed of $175. James McCoy, 27, of 3819 E. Washington St., and Robert Vawter, 29, of 556 N. Oxford St, told polic. they were attacked by three men whom they met in a downtown tavern. One of the men held Mr. Vawter, they told police,

Coy's wallet. Mr. Vawter had

more than $150 in his pocket, but|

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